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Between the government shutdowns that bookended the year, there were furious standoffs over a border wall; shootings at a high school, a...

President Trump seemed poised to avoid a government shutdown and to carry his fight for a border wall into 2019, when the House will be...

If any Democratic senator representing a red state was going to survive the midterm elections and continue serving in 2019, it was thought...

Ever since scientists created the powerful gene-editing technique Crispr, they have braced for the day when it would be used to produce a...

At the start of 2018, the biggest threat to the Trump presidency was an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. As the year draws...

It was never clear what motivated Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to hand the investigation of Michael D. Cohen, President...

Last week, Victorina Morales came forward and said that for the last five years, she had been working as an undocumented immigrant at...

Despite repeated warnings over the past two decades, federal law enforcement officials in the United States have ignored the threat of...

President Barack Obama came very close in 2015 to passing a bipartisan bill to rewrite prison and sentencing laws. Three years later, the...

In a humiliating last-minute move, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain postponed a vote in Parliament on Tuesday on the terms of the...